From Politico-- When pressed by [Judge Neomi] Rao about what would happen if the Justice Department refused to comply, the House counsel added: “We can send the sergeant-at-arms and he can have a gun battle.”
[Douglas] Letter quickly said that it was “obvious” how such an effort could lead to chaos and why that practice was abandoned.
"Instead, we go to court,” said [Douglas] Letter, who in early 2018 ended a four-decade career as a senior Justice Department attorney.
While we can hope he was just trying to get a reaction about the extreme in order to make his still-unreasonable demand that they "merely" go to court seem reasonable by contrast, it is disturbing that such a thought was so readily in his mind.
From Politico-- When pressed by [Judge Neomi] Rao about what would happen if the Justice Department refused to comply, the House counsel added: “We can send the sergeant-at-arms and he can have a gun battle.”
[Douglas] Letter quickly said that it was “obvious” how such an effort could lead to chaos and why that practice was abandoned.
"Instead, we go to court,” said [Douglas] Letter, who in early 2018 ended a four-decade career as a senior Justice Department attorney.
While we can hope he was just trying to get a reaction about the extreme in order to make his still-unreasonable demand that they "merely" go to court seem reasonable by contrast, it is disturbing that such a thought was so readily in his mind.